There is a requirement to capture Royal Colleges exams on TIS for helping manage training programmes. They are linked to ARCPs, e.g. Outcome 3 related to Exams Failure whereby they need to undergo exams set by Royal Colleges to fulfil the requirements of their curriculum. This data will also need to be made available in the National Data Warehouse for reporting on.
Working Group
Ashley Ransoo James Harris Marc Terry, Kate Aitken
Data set
No. | Field name | Mandatory | Matching Criteria/Update/Add | Reference Y/N? | Example value | Validation Rules | Comments |
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1. | Surname | Y | Matching Criteria | N | Must match exactly the Surname of a Current or Inactive person on TIS | ||
3. | GMC number | Y | Matching Criteria | N | Value must match exactly the GMC of a Current or Inactive existing Person record on TIS. The surname and GMC number for each row must match exactly a single TIS person record | ||
4. | Exam type | Y | Add | Y - New Reference table required | MRCP (Part 1) | Has to match one of the Reference CURRENT value. | |
5. | Date achieved | Y | Add | N |
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6. | Royal College | Y | Add | Y - College | Royal College Of Physicians | Has to match one of the Reference CURRENT value. | |
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No | Question/Assumption | Comments | ||
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1. | What is the purpose/benefits of recording exams data on TIS? What’s the problem we are trying to solve | |||
2. | In order to record any of the Royal Colleges data on TIS, there will need to be a Data Sharing Agreement signed between the parties involved. | |||
3. | Who are going to be recording the exams data on TIS? Is there a national process for collecting this data? | |||
4. | Does Membership type exams and Fellowship type exams need to be recorded separately? MRCP (Part 1) → Membership of Royal College of Physicians | |||
45. | Full list of exam types to be provided for new Reference table. | |||
56. | If the various Royal Colleges are going to have their own exams, are we going to have different lists of exam types per college? | |||
67. | The Royal Colleges would have mandated the data in an offline process to ensure the GMC Number and Surname combination matches to GMC LRMP (List of Registered Medical Practitioners) data before uploading this to TIS. | 7. | Who are going to be recording the exams data on TIS? Is there a national process for collecting this data? | |
8. | What happens if a trainee changes Specialty, e.g. GP changing to Psychiatry? Do we need to keep both GP Exams and RPSYCH Exams? | |||
9. | Exams data where they’ve been achieved will be uploaded to TIS. | |||
10. | A trainee can have multiple exams added to their record. | |||
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